Re: Re: E-bow question

[mungenast@earthlink.net]

I am very glad you got some inspiration from my passing along someone 
else's idea!
;-)
BTW, I think the Signal to Noise issue was the one with Bruce Hampton on 
the cover (headline sez "Sacred, Scared, Scarred," or something like 
that), wherein he waxes rhapsodic about Jacqueline Bissett: "I would swim 
through a sea of shark-infested babysh*t to get to her." You go, Captain!

E-bows rock. I have to get off my arse and buy one of these useful devices 
as soon as I can sell some more gear to pay for it.  FOR INSTANCE: Anyone 
want a DiMarzio Double Whammy pickup? Midrange for days... makes Gibbons 
harmonics almost too easy.
~Tim


-----Original Message-----
>From: burnett@pobox.com
>Sent: May 9, 2006 11:44 PM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Re: E-bow question
>
>On Sun, 7 May 2006, Timothy Mungenast wrote:
>
>> E-bows also work on acoustic instruments and some avant cat in Signal to
>> Noise mag even used on a snare drum's springs.
>
>Tim, thanks for mentioning this: inspired by the above, I took a Remo 
>spring drum
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002GFS3G/
>
>held it suspended by the end of the spring, then applied the E-Bow just 
>below my hand, bending the spring across the channel of the E-Bow with 
>very little pressure: just enough for the bottom end of the E-Bow channel 
>to act as a bridge for the spring. The result was a minimal-attack moan 
>as 
>the vibrating spring shook the spring drum head, reminiscent of the wind 
>sounds in the planet landing sequence of Ridley Scott's _Alien_. Very 
>cool, thanks.
>
>Oh, and Andy:
>
>best,
>Steve B
>Subscape Annex   http://www.subscapeannex.com/
>